Systems and Methods for Random Fill Caching and Prefetching for Secure Cache Memories

Patent Pending

Application No: US 18/792,903

Filed: August 2, 2024

Security Area: Secure Caches and Cache Side-Channel Attacks

Abstract

Systems and methods for random fill caching and prefetching for secure cache memories are provided. The system dynamically de-correlates fetching a cache line to the processor from filling the cache with this cache line, due to a demand memory access, in order to provide greater security from information leakage due to cache side-channel attacks on cache memories. The system includes a random fill engine which includes a random number generator and an adjustable random fill window. Also provided is an adaptive random fill caching system which dynamically adapts the random fill window to a wide variety of computational workloads. Systems and methods for cache prefetching to improve system performance using adaptive random fill prefetching and random fill prefetching are also provided.